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• O’Donovan boosts fleet safety with Scania skiploader

  15-03-2022 17:02 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  O’Donovan Waste Disposal Limited has become the UK’s first waste specialist to introduce a skiploader based on a Scania L-series chassis into service.
  Benefiting from a Transport for London five star Direct Vision Standard (DVS) rating, the vehicle sets a new standard for skiploader operation in terms of the level of protection it provides to vulnerable road users.
  Supplied by Scania (Great Britain) Limited’s Purfleet depot, the truck is part of an order for four Scania skiploa
  
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• HS2 contractor cuts ties with stakeholding Russian oligarch

  15-03-2022 15:55 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Austrian contractor Strabag, which is working in a joint venture on HS2′ London tunnels contract, has moved to distance itself from sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
  The tunelling specialist is 28% 0wned by Rasperia Trading, which itself is controlled by the Russian oligarch.
  His connection has raised question’s about Stragbag’s joint venture with Costain and Skanska, presently carrying out nearly £2bn of work on the HS2 project.
  Sarah Green, Member of Parliamen
  
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• Latest G&M safety system to stop falls down stairwells

  15-03-2022 15:04 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Construction safety specialist G&M Group has created a new stairwell void cover and hatch system following a series of site accidents.
  The MAP – Modular Access Platform – Safety System has been specifically designed for use in stair voids in residential and commercial construction projects.
  Its development followed a near miss on a housing site involving a G&M operatives over a stairwell void.
  Designed to be a safe, strong and stable platform over stair voids, the new G&M
  
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• Story wins £17m Ravenscraig rail bridge build

  15-03-2022 14:37 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Story Contracting has signed a £17m deal with Network Rail to build a new bridge crossing the West Coast Main Line as part of work to upgrade the road connections between Motherwell and Ravenscraig.A new dual carriageway will be built from a roundabout at Airbles Road/Windmillhill Street to Robberhall Road at the Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility. The bridge will be constructed to lift the railway line over the new road.
  Final design work on the project will start next month, with
  
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• Former McAlpine London boss joins McLaren as group construction MD

  15-03-2022 13:57 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Former Sir Robert McAlpine London boss Paul Heather has joined McLaren in the new role of UK Managing Director.
  Heather left McAlpine last summer after more than four years at the firm. Prior to that he spent 17 years at Skanska.
  His new role at McLaren creates a new layer of management immediately under chairman Kevin Taylor and co-shareholder Phil Pringle to lead on increasing productivity, profitability and growth in target sectors while developing high-performing teams.Heather will also take
  
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• Former McAlpine London boss joins McLaren as construction MD

  15-03-2022 13:57 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Former Sir Robert McAlpine London boss Paul Heather has joined McLaren in the new role of UK Managing Director.
  Heather left McAlpine last summer after more than four years at the firm. Prior to that he spent 17 years at Skanska.
  His new role at McLaren creates a new layer of management immediately under chairman Kevin Taylor and co-shareholder Phil Pringle to lead on increasing productivity, profitability and growth in target sectors while developing high-performing teams.Heather will also take
  
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• Trebor lodges plan for Ipswich logistic park

  15-03-2022 09:41 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Trebor Developments has submitted detailed plans for a five-unit industrial and logistics scheme at Eastern Gateway, Ipswich.
  Units will range from 10,000 sq ft up to 55,000 sq ft and will be built on a speculative basis at the Sproughton Road site.
  The developer said it planned to start work on site this autumn, subject to planning with the first sheds ready for tenants before summer 2023.
  The development is supported by further improvements that Ipswich Borough Council are carrying out to the
  
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• Gleeds lands cost control role on £235m Skanska green office job

  15-03-2022 08:52 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Gleeds has been confirmed as cost consultant and employer’s agent on the £235 million 105 Victoria Street development in central London.
  Skanska is main contractor on the job for client Welput where construction is set to start this autumn.
  The development is the largest speculative West End office scheme ever to come forward, being awarded Westminster City Council’s single largest commercial building consent in April.The scheme will far exceed industry standards for sustainabi
  
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• Bid race starts for £1.3bn highways surfacing framework

  15-03-2022 08:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  National Highways has fired the starting gun on the bid race for places on its next-generation Pavement Delivery Framework.
  The new £1.3bn framework will replace the previous surfacing and pavement arrangement, presently dominated by Tarmac Trading and Aggregate Industries for projects valued over £1m.Under the new proposed set up, the existing framework of six geographical areas with two lots per area for projects either worth under or over £1m will be replaced by 9 regional l
  
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• HS2 tunnellers hit first milestone on longest drive – video

  15-03-2022 08:14 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Two enormous 2,000-tonne tunnelling machines digging the HS2 project’s longest tunnels have hit their first milestone under the Chilterns.
  Together TBMs Florence and Cecilia have dug a combined total of over 3.6 miles to the 78m deep ventilation shaft at Chalfont St Peter – the first of five that will provide ventilation and emergency access to the ten-mile-long twin tunnels. 
  The TBMs launched in May and June last year are expected to break out at the north portal in around two
  
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• Plans in for Salford 90m ‘green boulevard in the sky’

  15-03-2022 08:12 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Plans have gone in for a vital piece of infrastucture to push forward the £2.5bn, 240-acre Crescent regeneration in Salford.
  The City Council, the University of Salford and The English Cities Fund have jointly submitted planning for Salford Rise a 90m green boulevard in the sky linking key parts of the masterplan.
  Awarded £13.17m of levelling up funding in the Autumn budget Salfour Rise stretches over Fredrick Road, together with adjacent public realm for events and activities.Design
  
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• Roadbridge supply chain owed millions on HS2

  15-03-2022 08:09 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Subcontractors and suppliers are holding outstanding invoices worth millions for work on HS2 following the failure of civils contractor Roadbridge.
  The firm is now in the hands of receivers from Grant Thornton who are “seeking to maximise asset realisations for the benefit of the company’s creditors.”
  Roadbridge UK was working on two HS2 sites where hundreds of its staff were sent home last week.The firm’s contracts on the project are understood to have been worth up to &
  
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• Plans in for Manchester Red Bank infrastructure work

  15-03-2022 08:03 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Fresh plans have been lodged with Manchester City Council to provide the critical infrastructure to allow 5,500 homes to be built in the Red Bank area of the city’s Victoria North scheme.
  Planned works include land remediation, earthworks and changes in site levels alongside the banks of the River Irk, while also revitalising the existing St Catherine’s Wood.
  The planning application also seeks approval to build preliminary transport infrastructure, including facilitating a new perma
  
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